The Evening Mail. MONDAY, JULY 9, 1877

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 377, 9 July 1877, Page 2

The Evening Mail. MONDAY, JULY 9, 1877

Me. Burns Ims spoken. He has enunciated his policy on the great questions of t'.ie day, and his constituents are well pleased. We have read through his speech, and the only very prominent characteristic about it is its eurtness. Mr. 13cess' ideas are not bad, but the misfortune is ti:at he leaves his hearers to work up the detail for themselves, which we think is a slight fault. His ideas regarding the suicidal policy of the Government in sending to Great Britain for railway rolling stock are, to our mind, incontrovertible ; but the question should have been argued with an elaborateness that would have carried conviction to the minds of those who elect to differ, or to the great mass who are careless about such and kindred matters. Statistics could have been produced that would have made t'.ie Government —rshamed of themselves, we were going to say ; but, such an assertion woidd only excite uncontrollable laughter on the part of those who are acquainted with the wiley old gentlemen, on whose skins the storms of

Humorous sessions have beaten, leaving no traces behind. But had Mr. Burns produced facte, as to quality and price, such disclosures would have resulted in convincing the most ardent adherent of the present hotch-potch thing called the Government, that their mismanagement in the matter of the purchase of railway material lias not in any way compromised the damning policy which will, unless something be done during the fort!;coming Sv.-ssi:.m that will make amends for the past, cause the names of those connected with it to be remember, d with loathing } by the people of this Colony for.generations to come. What can be said of a government that enters into a system of wlinksislj immigration, by which the Citinny is involved in a burdensome deb r ' and surfeited with artisans and others, 1 who c.iimot find employment because the (J-v•_-r;i!;K-ni- that inveigled them to our shores sends work out of the country that could be executed here at all events at the- same price as thai charged ill the Old Country. This is one of the peculiarities of a patriotic and brilliant Public Works policy that was to have transformed this country into gold ; but which will pauperise our population, and ruin our prospec's for years—unless its bad points he abandoned and the good ones propeily a'.ministered. List session was pregnant with lurmoi" ; but, considering the present position of a flairs—the nunnrous gi-L.-i; oiiestions that should bo debated the Parliamentary Hall should, during the forthcoming session, prove a perfect pandemonium. Nothing can benefit the Colony at this juncture but the thorough cleansing of the Ministry of the useless and scheming parasites that so tenaciously cling to honourable and lucrative Parliamentary positions.